Today we’ll be looking at a scene from Firestorm #92 which chronicles our favorite fire Elemental’s vision quest and first meeting with Maya. The scene only lasted seven pages, but it helped answer some of the questions that had been surrounding Firestorm for the previous six months.

In Firestorm #91, our hero was knocked unconscious and trapped at the bottom of the sea by his fellow water and air Elementals. This is where issue #92 picks up…

Wow! That’s deep stuff for a superhero comic! There are some seriously cool mythology-building moments in the panels above. I really enjoy John Ostrander’s take on the Elementals. It was purposefully different from what we’d seen previously in Swamp Thing, yet still managed to work (as we’ll discuss tomorrow). Did you take time to appreciate the gorgeous Tom Mandrake storytelling going on above? Some were full splash pages while others were six panels. This is how comics should be done! Another win for Ostrander and Mandrake!

Check back here tomorrow as we conclude our look at “The Elemental War”!

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Great review! Thanks for putting up all the scans!
It is indeed a rare appearance of Swampy outside his own title.
You should also mention Firestorm’s brief appearance in Swamp Thing Annual #5 (page 5). You can find detailed analysis of Swamp Things from the Alan Moore/Rick Veitch era at http://www.tinyurl.com/readswampthing
I have posted a link to your site there.

I am working on including a page about Firestorm and other characters that built upon the elemental concept.

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